I'd suggest you'd read this recently posted link, that's the way it's supposed to be done or at LEAST very close to it :)
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html That kind of setup of yours could endager an entire system if something went wrong ... never use it on production systems. Don't get me wrong here, it might run well for ages but IF something goes wrong you probably loose everything because of the / - the rest neglegance. Don't publish your advice if you aren't sure that's the 'right' way to do it ... that's some well meant advice i'm giving you, i'm not looking to start another flamewar here. Regards, Joris ps : there must be some spellingerrors in this text, i know ... correct me if you want too. -----Original Message----- From: Allan Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 13 april 2001 17:58 To: George M. Butler Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to partition hard drive? If it's for personal use I would use something like similar to this: /boot - 16 MB bootable swap - 2 x amount of RAM in the PC / - the rest Allan ------------------------------------------------------- Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware. On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, George M. Butler wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this is a real newbie question. I am in the process of > installing Debian Potato r2 on a > brand new machine I just built. It has a factory clean 30G IDE hard > drive and AMD K6-2/500. I put the Debian CD in the CDRom and booted. > I have selected the US qwerty keyboard. Now I am ready to partition the > hard drive. I would like some suggestions as to how to best partition > the drive. I want this to be a Debian only machine and I would also > like to have one partition to do the Linux From Scratch project at a > later date. > I would like to hear suggestions you might have or experieces. Thanks > for your help. > > George > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
